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PETER CLAUS BEHRENS
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
November 28, 1944 – December 4, 1970
Service recordPeter Claus Behrens, of Newburg, Missouri, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1970, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 105
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- November 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Newburg, Missouri (Phelps County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1970
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1970; four of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 105
- ROBERT LEE KINGCorporal · December 3, 1970
- SCOTT LAWRENCE SCHMIDTSpecialist Four · December 3, 1970
- JERRY DOYLE WALKERSpecialist Five · December 3, 1970
- RICHARD L BLASKOWSKISpecialist Four · December 4, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JAMES REEVE HEIMBOLDCaptain · Panel 6W, Line 106
- ANDREW MACHRISTIESergeant Major · Panel 6W, Line 107
- KERMIT LESLIE MATTHEWSChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 6W, Line 107
From Newburg
- LEO FRANKLIN RUPERTSpecialist Five · May 9, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.